Tag: Compassionate care

Writ large in our eyes

His hands are wringing, frail and wasted with disease, bones straining to break through stretched paper thin skin. Yellowed blood shot eyes staring up at me with a pleading expression, seeking out my eyes for some truth, some answers, some hope. Myself, reflected back in those glassy jaundiced pools of desperation, compassionate but struggling to …

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Motivating remote healthcare workers

Whenever we are given power and respect in life it is our responsibility, no, our duty to give that power and respect back to our benefactors….as teachers, care providers, protectors and leaders! So today was my turn… I was honoured to be invited to give the introductory talk for remote community healthcare workers training program …

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Compassionate care for remote Nepal?

Here is the plan for training remote healthcare workers here in Bajhang, Nepal in compassionate care…including communication skills, patient counselling and patient rights and dignity 🙂 I realise the pictures are upside down, but that’s the best I can do from an iPhone, via dodgy wifi in the middle of nowhere! LOL

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